Fight in Foods

Wiry, sharp-witted Economic Director Jimmy
Byrnes this week served blunt notice that even if he has to void laws
he is going to attack the worst aspect of the price control snarl,
namely that while luxury goods prices (see p. 83) are being held down
food prices are soaring.

Before a hornet-mad Senate Agricultural Committee he stood by Leon
Henderson, who thinks he has found a way to outwit the farm bloc. The
way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the
market; 2) maintain such stringent...